Example sentences of "could [vb infin] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth heartily wished that he could stay there for good . |
| 2 | Because there is little wind that high to split the particles up , it could stay there for years . |
| 3 | She loved it and wished she could stay there forever . |
| 4 | He was hoping he could stay there , close to her , for a long time . |
| 5 | It was still early , but she could stay there no longer . |
| 6 | If for any reason I had to spend the night in town and my friend Wilma could n't have me , I could stay there very cheaply with the girls . |
| 7 | If someone was lurking in the garden , then they could stay there . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I suppose I could stay there . |
| 9 | But the thing is once you 'd fit you could stay there . |
| 10 | It stated that any women then in composing rooms could remain there , but that no new recruits were to be taken on before 30 June 1916 . |
| 11 | The Booseys had , from 1963 , cleared scrub so that their goats could graze there , and reinforced the fence . |
| 12 | ‘ You could buy there skiers in glass bottles … clockwork marmots , goat horns … sunglasses , imitation butter-churns , my books . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps our guests could wait there ? ’ |
| 14 | So , it 's perhaps an area that I could instigate there . |
| 15 | With Solaris-on-Intel still unannounced and SunSoft starting to push Interactive Unix ( see opposite ) , Snoopy could appear there or on Solaris 1.0 or 2.0-on-Sparc first . |
| 16 | You could borrow there stock , is that what you 're thinking and then take back what we did n't sell . |
| 17 | She looked down at her white slippers , not fancying the mud and muck she could see there . |
| 18 | From your point of view , the ex-Soviet non-Union is now the world leader in creative accounting , and you could work there for London 's own Euro-institution , the Bank for Reconstruction and Development — but I think you would get more value from Hong Kong . |
| 19 | To do it , he had to have more privacy than his room allowed , and he had tentatively approached Captain Dawson , who was home on leave and was painting the porch , for permission to put a table and chair in the garage , so that he could work there . |
| 20 | During the day there was a factory and you used to have to make boxes , or if you were a cleaner you used to have to scrub the landings and everything , or there was a farm and you could work there — but you used to have to be really trusted to work on that . |
| 21 | If he did n't take them they could stop there . |
| 22 | We felt we could Anchor there all day and drink and sing Britannia until the Turks went mad . |
| 23 | Milton Keynes has its own hospital ; consultants and senior staff could move there with the medical school . |
| 24 | If I could find it I could sleep there . |
| 25 | We get our supplies from our computer dealer , so you could try there or a good office stationer . |
| 26 | ‘ We could try there , ’ I said , tentatively . |
| 27 | ‘ You could try there . ’ |
| 28 | Well we could try there . |
| 29 | By that time he 'd turned her head so much with tales of the big city and the life they could have there , she 'd have followed him anywhere . |
| 30 | In a properly shape world , all the pupils could walk there and home again . |